Help us fight for educational rights!

    The S.F.A.C.A. Texas Chapter met with the Senate Committee on Education for
    support on a Texas constitutional amendment in order to guarantee that the State
    must adequately provide facilities, maintenance, and current learning materials as
    well as a guaranteed protectable right to a formal and fair education. We were
    asked to come back during the 2013 Legislative period with overwhelming public
    support.

    Our mission now is to gather signatures from at least 30% of the registered
    voters within the state. If we are successful this amendment will ensure that the
    state must adequately fund Texas public schools.

    The amendment we are fighting for is:
                                         TEXAS CONSTITUTION
                                                   ARTICLE 7
                                                  EDUCATION
                                      THE PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS
    Sec. 1.  SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF SYSTEM OF PUBLIC FREE
    SCHOOLS.  A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation
    of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of
    the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and
    maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.

    Amendment shall read:

    The state must adequately provide facilities, maintenance, and current learning
    materials, as well as staff for the public free schools. A child who is at least five
    years of age and not over the age of eighteen shall have a legal protectable right
    to a formal and fair education for children who reside in the state legally. No
    person or government official or government entity shall have the right to limit or
    take away this right or limit access to a formal and fair education.

             
     We are gathering petitions to take back to the Senators in 2013 in order to get
    the votes necessary to put this constitutional amendment on the ballot. We are
    asking for you to join us to prevent the Texas Legislature from continuing to
    under-fund public education as well as continuing to deny Texas children the right
    to an education. If you would like to add your name to the petition you may
    download and print the petition form and mail it to:
                                            
                                              S.F.A.C.A.
                                              3005  S. Lamar Blvd.
                                              Ste. D109-177
                                              Austin, TX 78704
S.F.A.C.A.
SCHOOL FOR ALL
CHILDREN ACT
Texas Chapter
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"Education should
be a right, not a
war."